Woman Accidentally Texts Wrong Number Asking For Advice On Dress, Doesn’t Expect To Change This Boy’s Life

What do you do if you get a text from a wrong number? Sure, you can ignore it and get on with your life. Or better, politely explain the mix-up to the sender. Some people like to play along and mess with people a little, just for fun.

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This dad though, after receiving a text from a girl named Syd asking for advice on her dress, decided to spread some joy. “I thought, let’s try and make this young lady’s day.” Dad Tony told Bored Panda. He got his kids together and sent out a series of cute texts that she will never forget. “I figured that the childrens’ response would accomplish that substantially better than some middle aged overweight bald guy!”

What he didn’t know however, was how this random act of kindness would impact on the Spring Hill, TN, family’s lives. You see, the missing child from Tony’s cute approval pics is called Kaizler, and the reason that he wasn’t there, smiling cheekily with thumbs-up along with his siblings, is because he was with his mom Rachel at his chemo clinic, where he is currently being treated for Leukemia. “Kaizler is doing well, Tony told us. “We still have about a little over a year worth of treatments to go. He really wanted to try going to Kindergarten, so we gave that a shot, but he was getting sick way too often and had several hospitalizations.”

Tony and the kid’s sweet exchange with Syd went crazy viral on Twitter, with people falling in love with the cheeky and heartwarming way it unfolded. And now their good deed has had totally unexpected and amazing consequences. “Since this all started we’ve had over $3,000 donated,” Tony explained. “That’s more than we had donated in total over the last 2 years. It’s been amazing and is a bigger blessing than anyone could ever know. We were backed up to a financial wall. I’ve been working the entire time, but I was slowly but surely succumbing to the financial rigors of the situation.”

Crazy how the world works sometimes isn’t it? This is a genuinely nice story full of positivity and love, something that we need more than ever in these divisive times. One act of kindness has generated so much good will, and will helpfully go a long way to getting little Kaizler the treatment and care he needs to get him through his condition.

Kaizler’s mom Rachel has been overwhelmed by the reaction. “It is so refreshing to be reminded that there are good people in the world who still care about others and are quick to be generous and kind to others,” she told Bored Panda. “I would also like to thank EVERYONE from the bottom of my heart for all the kind words, all the prayers, all the donations, all the love and support. We honestly would never have been able to make it this far in our journey without every single one of you!!!”

Scroll down below to check out how the incredible story unfolded, and if you want to donate to the family’s gofundme page you can find it here.

What do you think ?

Australia, Canada, most of Western Europe all have tax-payer subsidized healthcare. Is it perfect? Nope...but i can tell you growing up knowing you can get healthcare without any worries, is a right every family deserves.
Do US citizens pay taxes? Then they should get healthcare.

I think if Americans were as mature and good-natured as Canadians, we as a country could handle it. As soon as anything is "FREE" (not really free, tax payer contributed), people will just abuse it until its awful for everyone. Our welfare system is subject to constant fraud. I would be deeply afraid of any form of socialized medicine in this country. I don't want tax dollars to go someones sex change when there's starving children and homeless people and victims of violence yet.

When I read about Americans getting medical treatment, I always assume their insurance covers it and everybody can have the care they need. But then I realize it's not the same as in other first world countries and I feel sad.

Guys I truly love your country. I ve been to US several times, I worked there on Work and travel program during my University time, etc. But what i truly hate is your healthcare system!!! I know business business business, but everyone should have equal chance to be treated in hospitals. I live in Europe, I am making good money, so according to law in Slovakia i have to pay a lot for healthcare. Am I ill?? No. am I happy that i pay a lot? Hell no :)), but this gives a chance to everyone, homeless, not working, your mum, poor, rich, black, white to be cured for free... well its not perfect, but at least nobody lets you die on the street or heal you and the send you check for 100.000$ so you start thinking that if dead would not be a better option... i dont like socialism as a way of thinking, but sometimes even bad ideas can contain some good things.. and shared healthcare is one of them i believe.

Same here in Switzerland and this country is very small. How come with so many millionaires and billionaires there is not enough tax money goes to in a national health care? Do the rich not pay taxes like other citizens? Does most of the money used to create wars so the arms industries can prospers? So sad for all these families.

Spoken with the confidence that only the deepest ignorance brings. I know the internet isn't where your generation goes to educate itself (sometimes I'm not sure such a place even exists), but you could read Daniel Hannan, who is a British politician speaking of the NHS in UK: "Our waiting times are longer than in other Western nations, and our survival rates are lower. Britain is pretty much the last place in the industrialized world where you’d want to be diagnosed with cancer, stroke, or heart disease."

USA needs public health care!!!! No family should have to raise money for their child’s cancer treatment. And when every contributes (our tax and NI gets taken out before we get our money). I earn £25,500 a year. I pay around £105 a month for NI contributions. It’s not much and the treatment I’ve had from the NHS far surpasses what I’ve paid in. The government also contributes to the NHS.

okaaaay. I really don't want to be a skeptic bastard in a story involving a sick kid (but I still will be), so here goes: In this modern era of thousand phone contacts in one gadget, and when there's almost no need to memorizing numbers: what is the possibility of 'texting wrong number'? I assume that she was intentionally about to ask someone she's already familiar with, and often asked for fashion advise, not some new person/fashion hotline service. Just wondering though, probably some of you could offer me some possibilities my mind couldn't think. But all in all, I'm glad the ending is good, and the kid back to smiling and healthy again.

I had an entire Jehovah's Witness group texting me. Apparently I got one of the group's leaders old number. He had been in Africa as a missiomary, and cut his phone off.
The 1st call sent me in as tailspin. They asked for Bryan. I had just recently lost my husband, whose name happened to be Bryan.i think I was a bit rude.
All worked out fine in the end. I kinda missed some of the group texts. LoL

There have been also plenty of hoaxes in GoFundMe and other money collecting websites so it would be normal to be skeptic also with those websites. Good thing was that this was not a hoax and that boy got the money that he needed. :)

It's happened to me also ~ several times. I always respond, mostly with a text back informing the sender of the mixup, in case they are reaching out to someone who may be waiting to hear from them. Most of the time, I get a "thanks" or nothing ~ fine, either way. There was one time, however, that the sender texted me back, demanding that I stop blowing up his/her phone!! It takes all kinds, I guess.... :/

Surprisingly I receive wrong number texts at least once a year. Somehow I even get pocket called still, which you also wouldn’t think was possible. It’s way less common but I can vouch for it happening to me. Usually just random birthday messages intended for someone else though, nothing interesting.

When I purchased prepaid sim card in England I was called, texted and threatened by a debt collector and a lawyer. The guy said that will report me to the police if I will not put on phone the owner of the number and to stop preotect him. And I was like I have just purchased that number WTF? It was very annoying.

I had the same issue a few years ago. These people would ring my number to ask the previous owner of my number if said person was going to work. Also, a telco was asking them to pay off a debt. That telco company is also my company. Once I told them I had just changed my number to that number recently, they stopped all contact.

@Alia Ris I wondered this same thing. When I get a new phone the first thing I do is transfer my contacts over. I can't ever think of a time when I'd actually punch in someone's phone number to text them. Weird.

I've had my cell number for over a decade and I still get occasional wrong number texts. I had a woman accuse me of borrowing her kitchen table set and never returning it. When I texted back that she had the wrong number, but I hoped she got her table back, she was furious and was adamant that she had checked the number and had just spoken to the borrower a few weeks ago on it.

I've had my iPhone for five years (husband and I are dinosaurs and didn't want anything connected to the internet until it got to be impossible to buy a phone that was JUST a phone.) I've had three wrong-number texts and way too many to count wrong-number phone calls. I suppose it works the same way landlines work - when someone disconnects their service, the number is dormant for a certain number of months and then is reissued to a new person? Also - and I know this wouldn't apply to the dress woman because she's young - but some people don't know how to create contacts and still use memorized telephone numbers (I was guilty of that for a bit ... as I said, dinosaur!) In any case, it was a kind thing, so it's worthy of passing on. It also brings up questions concerning US healthcare that people are discussing here, so I suppose that's a good thing as well.

Ever changed your phone? Are you one of those people who can't afford anything other than a prepaid? Ever added a contact? Ever had a friend change their phone number or swap providers? Ever just been lazy?
There is nothing remotely incredulous or unbelievable about a wrong number or misfired text.
I've had my boost mobile for over a year. I still get weird texts from those trying to reach the previous number holder.

*sigh* like porcupine said, I really wasn't trying to be rude, just sort of curious. And to answer your question: No, I never changed my phone unless it's dead broken, and one I got now is 9 years old. And yes, I can't afford anything other than prepaid (and because in my country, it's just more practical to use prepaid). And yes, I have added contacts, surprisingly. And yes, I have friends that change their numbers & providers. And yes, omg yes, I have been lazy, CURSE ME!. Probably, I've wrongly used my own (local) mindset, where cellphone numbers are either used or inactive, not attached to the carrier.

I don’t think OP was trying to be rude, it’s just unusual. I’ve personally had my same phone number for 13 years over 3 different carriers and I assume most other people don’t just go around changing phone numbers every year. Seems really inconvenient. But that’s a good point, I wouldn’t have thought of that.

I wasn't aware phone providers recycled the old numbers. Most people take their phone numbers with them when they get a new phone, but I suppose there are those who give up their number. Probably it doesn't happen here because we have a population of only 4.5 million, so there are enough unique numbers to not to need to recycle them.

Australia, Canada, most of Western Europe all have tax-payer subsidized healthcare. Is it perfect? Nope...but i can tell you growing up knowing you can get healthcare without any worries, is a right every family deserves.
Do US citizens pay taxes? Then they should get healthcare.

I think if Americans were as mature and good-natured as Canadians, we as a country could handle it. As soon as anything is "FREE" (not really free, tax payer contributed), people will just abuse it until its awful for everyone. Our welfare system is subject to constant fraud. I would be deeply afraid of any form of socialized medicine in this country. I don't want tax dollars to go someones sex change when there's starving children and homeless people and victims of violence yet.

When I read about Americans getting medical treatment, I always assume their insurance covers it and everybody can have the care they need. But then I realize it's not the same as in other first world countries and I feel sad.

Guys I truly love your country. I ve been to US several times, I worked there on Work and travel program during my University time, etc. But what i truly hate is your healthcare system!!! I know business business business, but everyone should have equal chance to be treated in hospitals. I live in Europe, I am making good money, so according to law in Slovakia i have to pay a lot for healthcare. Am I ill?? No. am I happy that i pay a lot? Hell no :)), but this gives a chance to everyone, homeless, not working, your mum, poor, rich, black, white to be cured for free... well its not perfect, but at least nobody lets you die on the street or heal you and the send you check for 100.000$ so you start thinking that if dead would not be a better option... i dont like socialism as a way of thinking, but sometimes even bad ideas can contain some good things.. and shared healthcare is one of them i believe.

Same here in Switzerland and this country is very small. How come with so many millionaires and billionaires there is not enough tax money goes to in a national health care? Do the rich not pay taxes like other citizens? Does most of the money used to create wars so the arms industries can prospers? So sad for all these families.

Spoken with the confidence that only the deepest ignorance brings. I know the internet isn't where your generation goes to educate itself (sometimes I'm not sure such a place even exists), but you could read Daniel Hannan, who is a British politician speaking of the NHS in UK: "Our waiting times are longer than in other Western nations, and our survival rates are lower. Britain is pretty much the last place in the industrialized world where you’d want to be diagnosed with cancer, stroke, or heart disease."

USA needs public health care!!!! No family should have to raise money for their child’s cancer treatment. And when every contributes (our tax and NI gets taken out before we get our money). I earn £25,500 a year. I pay around £105 a month for NI contributions. It’s not much and the treatment I’ve had from the NHS far surpasses what I’ve paid in. The government also contributes to the NHS.

okaaaay. I really don't want to be a skeptic bastard in a story involving a sick kid (but I still will be), so here goes: In this modern era of thousand phone contacts in one gadget, and when there's almost no need to memorizing numbers: what is the possibility of 'texting wrong number'? I assume that she was intentionally about to ask someone she's already familiar with, and often asked for fashion advise, not some new person/fashion hotline service. Just wondering though, probably some of you could offer me some possibilities my mind couldn't think. But all in all, I'm glad the ending is good, and the kid back to smiling and healthy again.

I had an entire Jehovah's Witness group texting me. Apparently I got one of the group's leaders old number. He had been in Africa as a missiomary, and cut his phone off.
The 1st call sent me in as tailspin. They asked for Bryan. I had just recently lost my husband, whose name happened to be Bryan.i think I was a bit rude.
All worked out fine in the end. I kinda missed some of the group texts. LoL

There have been also plenty of hoaxes in GoFundMe and other money collecting websites so it would be normal to be skeptic also with those websites. Good thing was that this was not a hoax and that boy got the money that he needed. :)

It's happened to me also ~ several times. I always respond, mostly with a text back informing the sender of the mixup, in case they are reaching out to someone who may be waiting to hear from them. Most of the time, I get a "thanks" or nothing ~ fine, either way. There was one time, however, that the sender texted me back, demanding that I stop blowing up his/her phone!! It takes all kinds, I guess.... :/

Surprisingly I receive wrong number texts at least once a year. Somehow I even get pocket called still, which you also wouldn’t think was possible. It’s way less common but I can vouch for it happening to me. Usually just random birthday messages intended for someone else though, nothing interesting.

When I purchased prepaid sim card in England I was called, texted and threatened by a debt collector and a lawyer. The guy said that will report me to the police if I will not put on phone the owner of the number and to stop preotect him. And I was like I have just purchased that number WTF? It was very annoying.

I had the same issue a few years ago. These people would ring my number to ask the previous owner of my number if said person was going to work. Also, a telco was asking them to pay off a debt. That telco company is also my company. Once I told them I had just changed my number to that number recently, they stopped all contact.

@Alia Ris I wondered this same thing. When I get a new phone the first thing I do is transfer my contacts over. I can't ever think of a time when I'd actually punch in someone's phone number to text them. Weird.

I've had my cell number for over a decade and I still get occasional wrong number texts. I had a woman accuse me of borrowing her kitchen table set and never returning it. When I texted back that she had the wrong number, but I hoped she got her table back, she was furious and was adamant that she had checked the number and had just spoken to the borrower a few weeks ago on it.

I've had my iPhone for five years (husband and I are dinosaurs and didn't want anything connected to the internet until it got to be impossible to buy a phone that was JUST a phone.) I've had three wrong-number texts and way too many to count wrong-number phone calls. I suppose it works the same way landlines work - when someone disconnects their service, the number is dormant for a certain number of months and then is reissued to a new person? Also - and I know this wouldn't apply to the dress woman because she's young - but some people don't know how to create contacts and still use memorized telephone numbers (I was guilty of that for a bit ... as I said, dinosaur!) In any case, it was a kind thing, so it's worthy of passing on. It also brings up questions concerning US healthcare that people are discussing here, so I suppose that's a good thing as well.

Ever changed your phone? Are you one of those people who can't afford anything other than a prepaid? Ever added a contact? Ever had a friend change their phone number or swap providers? Ever just been lazy?
There is nothing remotely incredulous or unbelievable about a wrong number or misfired text.
I've had my boost mobile for over a year. I still get weird texts from those trying to reach the previous number holder.

*sigh* like porcupine said, I really wasn't trying to be rude, just sort of curious. And to answer your question: No, I never changed my phone unless it's dead broken, and one I got now is 9 years old. And yes, I can't afford anything other than prepaid (and because in my country, it's just more practical to use prepaid). And yes, I have added contacts, surprisingly. And yes, I have friends that change their numbers & providers. And yes, omg yes, I have been lazy, CURSE ME!. Probably, I've wrongly used my own (local) mindset, where cellphone numbers are either used or inactive, not attached to the carrier.

I don’t think OP was trying to be rude, it’s just unusual. I’ve personally had my same phone number for 13 years over 3 different carriers and I assume most other people don’t just go around changing phone numbers every year. Seems really inconvenient. But that’s a good point, I wouldn’t have thought of that.

I wasn't aware phone providers recycled the old numbers. Most people take their phone numbers with them when they get a new phone, but I suppose there are those who give up their number. Probably it doesn't happen here because we have a population of only 4.5 million, so there are enough unique numbers to not to need to recycle them.